Disinfectant composition containing a corrosion inhibitor



Patented Nov. 20, 1951 DISINFECTANT COMPOSITION CONTAINING A CORROSION INHIBITOR Sven Christian J ohansson, Goteborg, Sweden No Drawing. Original application May '7, 1946,

Divided and this application July 19, 1948, Serial No. 39,582. In Sweden Serial No. 668,010.

May 12, 1945 12 Claims. (01. 167-13) This application is a division of my copending application Serial No. 668,010 filed May 2, 1946, now Patent No. 2,504,200.

The present invention relates to disinfectants, the object of the invention being to produce disinfectant compositions which will be of non-corrosive character. To this end the disinfectants are mixed with an aromatic hydroxycarboxylic acid with one or more nitro groups, or a compound in which the hydrogen of the carboxyl and/or hydroxyl groups of said acid is replaced by metal, ammonium, radical of organic base or other organic compound. The aromatic hydroxy-carboxylic acid may contain one or more carboxyl and hydroxyl groups. As examples the following acids may be mentioned: Mononitrohydroxybenzoic acid, dinitrohydroxybenzoic acid,

mononitrohydroxyphthalic acid, dinitrohydroxyphthalic acid and homologues of these acids. The compounds here referred to exert their corrosion inhibiting action either as such or in more or less neutralized condition, I prefer, however, to use them in the form of' salts or esters or compounds which are both salts and esters.

Thus, either the hydrogen of the hydroxyl groups only or the hydrogen of the carboxyl groups only or the hydrogen of hydroxyl as well as carboxyl groups may be replaced by metal or organic radical. Of the metals, for example, the

alkali metals and alkaline earth metals may be The corresponding compounds of mononitroparahydroxybenzoic acid have also proved to be suitable for the purpose in question. Also the homologues of these compounds are useful for the same purpose. In the examples stated the oxy group is in para position to the carboxyl group but correspondin compounds of the oxy group in ortho or meta position may also be used.

The position of the nitro group or groups is of a certain importance since it is or they are most efiective in ortho position to the oxy group.

But compounds with the nitro groups in other positions are not excluded as nitrocompounds to:

be added to disinfectants.

As low a concentration as 1 part of weight of any of the compounds of nitroparahydroxybenzoic acid in 500,000 parts of weight of water prevents during a considerable time corrosion of ordinary iron and steel.

In the cases tested the compounds here referred to have no injurious effect on the disinfectants but they rather improve their sterilizing properties. In the use of ordinary corroding disinfectants a certain dissolution of metal out of the metal article to be sterilized takes place and there is danger that the metal dissolved will influence the composition of the disinfectant in an injurious way. Thus, in addi-- tion to preventing corrosion the nitrooxy compounds referred to will keep the disinfectants in unchanged condition. It should also be noted that metal objects will be easily covered by corrosion products (rust) when being treated with disinfectants without corrosion inhibiting agents. The pores of such corrosion products form places which are diiiicult for the disinfectant to reach and in which bacteria will find protection against the disinfectant which in such a case will be inactive against the bacteria. By the corrosion inhibiting substance the formation of places of the metal object difiicult to sterilize is prevented, and thus the effect of the disinfectant will be improved. Only as an example it may be mentioned that an aqueous solution of 5% of the antiseptic agent chloramine with the lithium salt of dinitrohydroxybenzoic acid with the concentration 1:2.000 will in 48 hours not exert any corrosion on iron and steel.

The corrosion test has been made With ordinary steel. The corrosion rate depends, of course, not only on the composition of the solution but also on other factors such as temperature. kind of steel. admission of air, the material oi. the vessel employed for the solution, etc.

Also other disinfectants may be made non-corrosive by the addition of a slight quantity of the nitrooxy compounds above mentioned. Such disinfectants are, for example: hypochlorites (e. g. sodium hypochlorite, chlorite of lime), hydrogen peroxid, iodine (e. g. iodine dissolved in alcohol), bromine, iodine compounds and bromine compounds, such as iodoiorm and bromoform, sublimate and other mercury compounds such as mercurochrome, ph-enylmercury salts, disinfectants containing formalin, e. g. mixtures of formalin and alcohol, formaldehyde-soap-solutions,

phenol, cresol, thymol, naphthol, certain alkyl and acyl resorcinols, benzoic acid, esters thereof and homologues acridine derivatives, diamidines, etc.

The disinfectant constituent and the corrosion inhibiting; constituent. or constituents may be; mixed With-each other in:the form of a molecular. or colloidal solution, dispersion or emulsion. The constituents may, of course, if possible and dee sired, be mixed with each other in solid form in suitable proportions, e. g. as IJOWdBlOIJtfibItSl What I claim is:

1. A disinfectant composition, non-corrosive: to metals in the presence of. water, the essential eiiective ingredients of which consist: essentially: of a bactericidal agent and an appreciably,-lesser; amount than it of a corrosion inhibiting agent suflicient to manifest its corrosion inhibiting effectiveness in the presence of water when izhedoactericidal agent is presentin the water in a bactericida'llywifective' concentration, saidrcorrosion:

agent: having thexgeneral formula;

(N 'zL. wherein-X1" -isan oxy-group linked by its oxygen to a ring carbon and is a member of 'theolass consisting of the? hydroxyl, and the ammonium, alkali metal, andalkaline' earth metal hydroxylate group's; X' is? a; carbonyl-oxy group linked by the carbon'ofit's carbonyl-portion to a ringcar b'o'n-in para-p'ositionto group X1, said carbonyl oxyi groupbeing a'member'of' the'class consisting of' 'the carboxyl, carbalkoxy; and the ammonium, alkali-metal and'alkaline earth metal carboxylate groups and'n' is a whole number. less than three.

2'.A disinfectant composition as claimed in claim 1, wherein a nitro groupisiniortho'positionto the group 1X1.

3; A disinfectant composition as V claimed-i in claim 2; whereininis two.

ii A disinfectant composition as claimed in claim 3, whereinfthe' groupr Xi is 01d:

claim 8-, wherein X'liS -O -Li.

10. A disinfectant composition as claimed in claim 9,.wherein X is '--CO -OLi.

11*..A disinfectant composition as claimed in claim 8;,whereinXJs a carboxylate group.

12. A disinfectant composition as claimed in claim ll, wherein X is the group -CO-OLi.

SVEN CHRISTIAN JOHANSSON.

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1. A DISINFECTANT COMPOSITION, NON-CORROSIVE TO METALS IN THE PRESENCE OF WATER, THE ESSENTIAL EFFECTIVE INGREDIENTS OF WHICH CONSIST ESSENTIALLY OF A BACTERIDICAL AGENT AND AN APPRECIABLY LESSER AMOUNT THAN IT OF A CORROSION INHIBITING AGENT SUFFICIENT TO MANIFEST ITS CORROSION INHIBITING AGENT FECTIVENESS IN THE PRESENCE OF WATER WHEN THE BACTERICIDAL AGENT IS PRESENCE IN THE WATER IN A BACTRICIDALLY EFFECTIVE CONCENTRATION, SAID CORROSION INHIBITING AGENT HAVING THE GENERAL FORMULA 